This is a piece by female French Baroque composer Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre. She was one of the few famous female musicians of her time, and a successful one at that. She was a child prodigy, and practically grew up in the courts, after Louis XIV heard her play and requested that she receive her education in the courts. She later married an organist and had a son. However, tragedy struck and she lost practically her whole family within a matter of years: her husband, her son, her mother, and her brother. After she got over it (or learned to cope with it), she started performing and composing again. This chaconne (chaconne rondeau to be precise) belongs to a D minor suite she published in 1707, after her return to the public. I fell in love with this piece after repeatedly listening to my recording of it. The score doesn't ask for playing specific registers, but I play around to create different effects. To bad my camera doesn't do a good job in capturing it. The frequency response of these camera mics are pretty crappy.